A powerfully compelling film that gains most of its intrigue via the artifice of purposefully withholding information from the moviegoer.
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09/05/04
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Wicker Park (2004)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:27
Rotten:91
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
Theatrical Release:Sep 3, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $12,831,121
Synopsis: In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'APPARTEMENT, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne
Director: Paul McGuigan
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Reviews for Wicker Park
This American version can’t hold a candle to its French counterpart, which was deeply, eerily resonant where this is only frustrating, a Rubik's Cube, minus its colorful signage.
09/05/04
It's no coincidence that Wicker Park doesn't work.
09/05/04
...a romantic thriller devoid of romance, but it does thrill with the anticipation of how over the top the filmmakers' next move will be.
09/05/04
While the cast is beautiful to look at, by the time the movie reveals what's really going on, you'll be struck with more boredom than shock.
09/04/04
It seems to take a confused eternity to get started, but once director Paul McGuigan's m.o. finally becomes apparent, the thing takes on a dogged kind of interest.
09/04/04
Oh dear readers run to another theater and don't look back...
09/04/04
Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be.
09/04/04
Top CriticNot the customary disposable cinematic fare released on the always-slow Labor Day weekend, but an intriguing, original film of ideas and human feeling.
09/04/04
What could have been a high-art thriller ends up to be a low-brow movie of the week.
09/04/04
Relies on too many coincidences and confusing flashbacks.
09/04/04
An interesting formal exercise: exceedingly hard to swallow, but quietly engrossing...deserves style points for sticking to an unconventional narrative.
09/03/04
Wicker Park's nifty jigsaw puzzle of a story is done in by unfortunate casting choices.
09/03/04
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09/03/04
McGuigan seems to have invested more in the youth and glamour of his cast than in a plausible and exacting script.
09/03/04
Top CriticA limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama about -- gasp! -- a series of unfortunate miscommunications.
09/03/04
Top CriticThis is a smart movie, full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks, and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters.
09/03/04
Top CriticAll of this was more enjoyable when Bellucci, Cassel and Bohringer were the stars.
09/03/04
McGuigan's callow actors (it bears noting that the original French cast has an average of 10 years on the young Americans) have nothing to bring to their one-attribute characters ... and the agonies of cartoons don't amount to much.
09/03/04
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